I am a long-standing admirer of the work of John Alexander Skelton, a fashion designer, but whose work is closer to fine art. I even have a jacket of his which only comes out in the high summer.
We sadly missed his fashion show last night, but I pedalled off to see it in Asylum Road, south of the Old Kent Road, this morning.
It’s an amazing installation, sadly ephemeral, in a highly atmospheric space.
Entry:-
A first view:-
The sun was coming in:-
The imagery is Celtic:-
This is the setting:-
And here is the man himself:-
| Charles | Saumarez | Smith | 
I remember attending John Alexander Skelton’s Fashion in Motion show, with my then teenage daughter, at the V&A back in 2018. She was doing A Level Art at the time and so we went to all sorts of things for inspiration. What I remember most about it was that it had a kind of Wicker Man atmosphere with models singing ‘Sumer is Icumen In’. It was a lot of fun and it was certainly inspirational for a teen doing art, music and history at A Level!